In a single week, Moscow transformed World Atomic Week (WAW 2025) – a nuclear-industry showcase – into a diplomatic sprint across Africa’s energy map. The Kremlin positioned WAW 2025 as a platform to promote new nuclear financing models, linking technological offers to state diplomacy. Peaceful nuclear technologies are “the basis for international cooperation and bringing states closer together,” in President Vladimir Putin’s words. Here is a snapshot of what actually happened (an energy investor’s perspective).
